PAST TENSES REVIEW

PAST SIMPLE / PAST CONTINUOUS/ PAST PERFECT SIMPLE AND

CONTINUOUS FILL IN WITH PAST PERPECT / PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS
Sally Porter__________________________(walk) home late

one night. She ____________________(be) to a dinner party When I entered the house something smelt awful.

at her friend’s house. The city streets _______________(be) Someone___________________________(cook)

empty and it___________________________(rain) slightly. and___________________________(burn) the meal.

She__________________________________(look forward) I________________________________(visit) the

to getting safely home to bed because at dinner her house once before and_______________(meet) the family

friends_________________________________(talk) about but I didn’t know what_____________________(happen)

a dangerous murderer who__________________(escape) from since then. The house was a mess.

prison the week before. Her friend Mark ___________(offer) The children______________________________(play)

to walk home with her but, as she___________________(live) in the living room and_______________________(leave)

only a mile away, she______________(tell) him that she would the toys all over the floor. Someone_____________(leave)

be OK. She was about halfway home when she_________ (hear) the windows open. It_________________________(rain)

footsteps behind her. She__________________(stop) for hours and the curtains____________________(get)

and_____________(turn) round, but she couldn’t see anyone wet and dirty. I asked the children where their parents

and the footsteps ________(stop) as well. When she continued were. They said their mother_________________(be) in

on her way the footsteps ___________________(start) again. hospital for the past two weeks and that their

She____________(begin) to feel afraid. She started to run. father___________________________(look alter) them

The footsteps _______________________(get) closer. since then. Obviously he_______________________(do)

Suddenly she _____________(feel) a hand on her shoulder and his best, but he couldn’t do any better since he worked all

she_________________(scream) in terror. “Sally! Sally! it’s morning and had to leave them alone most of the day.

me, Mark”. He tried to explain that he_______________(be) I had to do something to help them.

worried about her and_________________(decide) to follow

her home. But Sally_______________(can/not) hear a word

because she__________________________(already/faint).

PUT THE VERBS IN BRACKETS IN THE CORRECT PAST FORM.

I remember when I ___________(go) on Holiday abroad for the first time. I _____________________(just/leave) school.

I ______________________________(study) very hard for my final exams and I _______________(feel) that I needed

a Holiday. A fiend of mine _________________(want) to come as well so we________________(look) at some brochures

from the travel agent’s. We_______________________(read) for about an hour when my friend _______________(find)

the perfect Holiday- two weeks in Hawaii. We____________________(be) very excited about it.

Finally the day of our holiday __________________(arrive).We __________________________(just/leave) the house

when the phone______________(ring). I____________(run) back into the house, but the phone_________________(stop)

by the time I _______________(reach) it. When we ______________(arrive) at the airport we __________________(go)

into the cafeteria. The airline_____________________________(just/make) an announcement. Our flight was delayed for

eight hours. We____________________________________(get up) very early and rushed to the airport, all for nothing.